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Le Couroucou a chaperon violet, Buf. eif. vi. p. 294. •>• 



Lanius, capite collo pe&oreque e violaceo nigricantibus digitis duobus an. HF ADFD 

 ticis, totidemque pofticis, AT. C.Ac, iW.vol.xi.p.436. N°7.t. 16. f.8*. <j^ 



>"TpHIS meafures nine inches and a half in length. The bill is 

 ■*" lead-coloured at the bafe, and whitifh at the point : on the 

 forehead, round the eyes and the ears, it is blackifh : the reft of 

 the head, the throat, neck, and breaft, very deep violet : the eye- 

 lids yellow : -the back and rump of a deep gilded green : the 

 upper tail coverts blueifh green, and gilded as the others : the 

 wings brown : the coverts and lefler quills dotted with white : 

 the two middle tail feathers blueifh green, tipped with black : the 

 two next, on each fide, partly of the laft colour, and partly black s 

 the three outer ones black, barred and tipped with white. 



Description. 



Spotted Curucui, Bro-wn Uluflr, t. 13. 



6. 



SPOTTED 

 C. 



ClZE of a Nuthatch. Bill brown: crown deep green: neck, Description. 



breaft, and belly, pale brown, barred with dufky : edges of 

 wings white: coverts and fecondaries green, tipped with white : 

 tail dufky, barred with white. 



Inhabits Ceylon.- Piace. 



* M. Koelreuter, who mentions this in the Peter/burgh Ttan/ail. above quoted, 

 calls it a Shrike, and yet places, in his plate, the toes two and two. How he 

 will reconcile this, I know not j the flighted obferver muft rank it with the 

 Curucui]; as the ferrated bill, and Ihort, feathered, and weak legs will teftify. 



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